[QuadList] CMX Edge

[Trevor Brown]

I think that was the one with soft keys around the screen
That reprogrammed themselves into a different function as indicated on the
CRT

Can be upsetting to press the same button and get a different effect
Again it was 1" days not as bad as three TR 600's and AE 600

So I suppose it was progress

TrevorB
UK member 

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[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Scott Thomas
Sent: 29 January 2010 07:46
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] CMX Edge


On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> Park Seward now has the CMX Edge package pictured near the bottom of the
page.  I acquired it from a Sacramento television station.  It has an
interface and cables for three Sony BVH-1100's and interface for a GVG 1600
(at the bottom of the stack.) One of the two chassis has Sony 5800/5850
interfaces.
> 

The CMX Edge was the first true computer editor I ever used at WFTX-TV in
Cape Coral, FL in the early 1990's. It looks like a prop from Kubrick's
"2001 a Space Odyssey", but behaved quite differently. We had it connected
via the parallel interfaces meant for BVU-200 machines, to Betacams. We
believed that the ballistics of the machines were fast enough to confuse the
CPU. You would sometimes hit the edit button and watch the thing just force
everything into rewind.

The Edge had two GPI triggers. One was connected to the GVG-200 switcher,
and the other was connected to the Abekas A-53D (+Warp) DVE. The only thing
I had to do was manually hit the cart playback.

What was also fun was our lack of storage. We didn't have any way to save
EDL's as there was no floppy drive, and there was only a 50 event list in
the computer memory. We would painstakingly write down every in and out on a
list to be able to go back if we had to.

I learned a lot from that machine, and I was later able to move to a Sony
BVE-900 and GVG VPE-215 with ease.

The station I'm at now *had* a Ampex Ace (200 perhaps?). No one bothered to
learn it. It was sold sometime ago. Production is still producing things
just like they did 30 years ago. Sometimes it's all you need to "Press and
Prey", but they haven't even learned the tools of just 20 years ago. *sigh*

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